On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...

Rainbows don't actually exist. You can't find the end of a rainbow (or its attendant pot of gold). It's not possible to walk across a rainbow as the Norse gods did on the Bifrost, the bridge for ...

This election unfolds at a critical juncture for the nation, particularly in higher education, where diversity and equity ...

The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back ...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around it. In this sequence of images the terrestrial disk gradually shrinks as ...

As humans leave space junk behind, there may come a time when human bodies would need to decompose in space. Learn how this ...